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MILWAUKEE – Master Lock ended operations and closed its Milwaukee plant after more than 100 years in March 2024. Hundreds of jobs moved out of the city, and people in the city’s Amani neighborhood say the closure had an impact. “The Amani Neighborhood was once a thriving neighborhood,” said Dominican Center Executive Director Maricha Harris. […]

(FOX40.COM) — Sacramento may not experience the totality of the upcoming solar eclipse, however, the area will still feel the effects of a partial one. “If you didn’t know it was coming, you might just write it off as an abnormally cool spring day,” said Raj Dixit, Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society. How does animal behavior […]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — West Michigan is set to see the eclipse this afternoon, and the weather looks cooperative. COVERAGE AND TIMING The eclipse will begin across West Michigan between 1:50 p.m. and 2 p.m. and will conclude between 4:20 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Here are coverage percentages and peak times for some cities […]

TechCrunch Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would When I started working from home in the late 1980s as a freelance technical writer, I was clearly an outlier. Over time, though, that slowly changed, and the pandemic — along with generationally shifting views on work-life balance — accelerated worker […]

By Byron Kaye and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s major supermarkets should face hefty fines if they do not comply with an industry code of conduct when dealing with suppliers, a government-commissioned report said while rejecting calls to give regulators the power to break up the big chains. Supermarkets with more than A$5 billion ($3.3 […]

By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo on Sunday dismissed his minister of environment and natural resources, fewer than 100 days into his term, to “avoid any doubt” over the integrity of his government, a statement said. Arevalo won the presidential elections in August by a landslide after a campaign that […]

You may already know about the connection between diet and heart health, but did you know that you can also lower your risk of getting cancer through what you eat? While we can’t control our health entirely, more than 4 in 10 cancers are attributed to modifiable risk factors (AKA things in our control), including […]

She raised the bar for herself. A 50-year-old UK woman says she lost 140 pounds by ditching her nightly bottle of white wine — she had packed on much of the weight after a septic shock scare. Jo Hurley, a quality assurance officer from Harlow, England, saw a doctor in 2018 after struggling with heavy […]

TechCrunch Fintech representation in YC’s Demo Days is definitely shrinking This week, we’re looking at just how many fintech companies made it into Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort, how much funding slid in the first quarter, and more! Y Combinator held demo days for its Winter Cohort this week. Of the 260 companies in the […]

Poland’s national-conservative opposition party PiS has a slight lead in local elections, according to initial forecasts giving the edge to the party recently booted from power. Several television stations reported on Sunday, citing forecasts by the Ipsos Institute, that PiS won 33.7% of the vote in the elections for the 16 regional administrations. Prime Minister […]